u. s. thing that they could engage african leaders without an agenda come to watching to let me tell you what i want to do for you. come to watching to let me tell you what you need to do in your country. and that again is an old game, right? not going to work anymore. to be honest with you. if i'm to speak the truth. i hope a lot of it has gone up because it is an insult. it is an abuse of the us as a can lead us is a disrespect of the african lee. that's where is the agenda, plays respect to the african leaders. do unto them what you would want done on to you. so it's really a simple ask. let me ask you a question. you mentioned china and how china approaches this. i'm interested in what china get so right. and but is there a blind spot there? are there problems in the china africa relationship from your perspective? let me know. so let me just let him know in the head and deal with 10000 with the 10000 upon body like in the room. yeah. racism as well. there's a very important part. the disresp

u. s. so thing is underway in fiji in an election contest between 2 former qu, leaders, prime minister, frank bennet, my rama seized power in a 2006 q, but has gone on to when to elections his rival at city veney. rebecca is a former prime minister who led to cruise in 1987 is a strict media blackout in accordance with it for g in election laws. u. s. president joe biden has signed into law protections for same sex marriage. it's been a right since a landmark supreme court decision in 2015, but the new law provides safeguards if the now conservatively in court versus the ruling and includes legalizing same sex unions and protecting interracial marriages . an argentine have book, they are placed in a well cut fine with a crushing victory over crecia. the creations were no match. sergeant in the semi final, at the sales stadium and cut on tuesday, how to tailor will play the winner wednesdays france. morocco match. he's continues here on al jazeera, after witness to stay with us. ah ah i let you watch. the old school goes both. the one that came out when i was jo, aids. oh boy, i was jordan. gi

u. s. southwest things really quite here. i've tried off some, not much to talk about. let's go toward the north and we're seen at cooler air. dig into a british columbia to vancouver, 2 degrees. but it's going to get worse before it gets better. we're going to lock your temperature in at 2 minus 3, which is well below average. and there's some more snow on the way here. central america, that trade winds are picking up, so some bursts of rain. i think more so for the pacific coast to coast recon saturday and some bursts of rain also for brazil's capital brazilian. certainly the risk of some flooding there. the storms through the bolivian, impaired ruffian andy's breezy through the river plates. but in north wind for by year blanca means the temperature is up to 31 degrees on saturday. that's your up. the take care bye ah. across southeast asia, a growing number of women are recruiting bonding and even tooling for violet groups . one, a one east investigate the rise of these female fought on al jazeera ah al jazeera. when ever you oh, oh. oh, he watching out his hair, a

u. s. southwest. things really quiet here. i've tried off some, not much to talk about. let's go toward the north and we're seeing that cooler air dig into a british columbia to vancouver, 2 degrees, but it's going to get worse before it gets better. we're going to lock your temperature in 2 minus 3, which is well below average. and there's some more snow on the way here. central america, that trade winds are picking up, so some bursts of rain. i think more. so for the pacific coast to coast recon saturday and some burst of rain also for brazil's capital brazilian, certainly the risk of some flooding there. the storms through the bolivian, impaired ruffian andy's breezy through the river plates. but in northwind for by year blanca means the temperature is up to 31 degrees on saturday, that sharp, that take care bye. ah ah, with blue ah, welcome back. i took him out of the top stories here on al jazeera, peruse, parliament has rejected a bill to bring for what a general election has political unrest grows. 15 regions now under a 5 day curfew, 18 people have been killed si

u. s. ambassador to peru, and as they say in the u. s. is really no such thing as a former cia agent. the reality is that many people around the world know that the u. s. embassy is used to organize coups and it's used for intelligence and spying operations. and in latin america, there is a joke that you often hear people say they say, why is that as there never been a coup in washington? and that the answer is because there's no u. s embassy in washington. and that's a rob on the hour's top news stories from around the world for more coverage, head over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on rumble, odyssey and gap, we'll see it back next hour. ah ah, lisa canter, rush in the state. little narrative i side as i phone and ignore some scheme with 55 with. okay, so mine is 2000 speedy when else with will ban in the european union. the kremlin. yup, machines. the state aren't russia today, and split ortiz spoke neck, given our video agency, roughly all band on youtube and pinterest. and with then lou molly la la la la la la la la la la la la la, la, la la, with ah .

u. s. pen to them, and the state department last year, the u. s. government granted about one half $1000000.00 to the thing. thank. this is you to has a salient to purchase a dozen b $21.00 south bombers insisting that it would be a better investment than nuclear submarines the across radar absorbent construction and especially long range capabilities are presented as the main advantages. but even the u. s. has said the bombers are still in the testing phase, and there's currently not a concrete time frame for when they could be delivered. we heard from and difficult alice, tim anderson who says, australia's concerns about the alleged chinese threat have stemmed from an over reliance on policy directives from the u. s.

u. s. troops fired upon a crowd of protesters and killed 13 people that were simply demanding an end to the u. s. military occupation there. but for many observers, probably the most scandalous thing that happened was the fact that the u. s. used white phosphorus as a chemical weapon in civilian areas. and then on top of that, they lied about it for years. it was only after actually a documentary came out showing previously and shown unseen footage and interviews that we started. c u. s. troops coming clean about this kind of stuff i received from the us department white house for susan stevenson soon to leave roommate animations for this trans who's arranged fresh from use hamptons, and was seeking some of these attempts to manipulate the narrative of what happened didn't even stop at these lies about white phosphorus either. i mean, the international press institute accused the u. s. a violating press freedom in iraq because it said that the u. s. was delaying the publication of photographs that showed us troops abusing prisoners. why, apparently the military top ras thought that that would make their job. and felicia a lot more difficult. i remember the battle so well, and now

things. i believe the u. s. is targeting europe place in africa and we spoke with john kerry, aka host of the whistleblowers, who thinks that the real reason for not inviting these countries is a lack of benefit for the us. even when the new governments of these countries have pledged a return to democracy and of in some cases scheduled democratic elections that still wasn't good enough for the united states. and so these 5 countries weren't invited. and i'll add that these 5 countries are 5 that in which the united states can't make any money right now, russia is very popular in africa. china, a china is very popular in africa. and the western countries are not there, not because they ignored the needs of the child of the african people and the african governments for many, many years. the u. s. presence is literally a one of, of war. the only real us presence in any of these countries is a paramilitary force. look at molly, for example, or mauritania, or any of the other of this a hell countries need air. we o

u. s. ambassador to peru, and as they say in the u. s. is really no such thing as a former cia agent. the reality is that many people around the world know that the u. s. embassy is used to organize coups and it's used for intelligence and spying operations. and in latin america, there's a joke that you often hear people say, they say, why is there is there never been a cou in washington? and that the answer is because there's no u. s embassy in washington. 3 explosions have wrought the city of don yeske overnight. sakes grad missiles were fired at a residential area. according to local authorities, one of the buildings reportedly caught fire with windows blown out, and that entire floor destroyed. and another witnesses say, some missile fragments hid a car, injuring a family and side. we heard from local residents about their life under constant shelling, larry in cities, units of blood, the auction. the ukrainian regime ignores all the rules and targets purely civilian areas. there are no military personnel, they're only local residents, small children leave here. i have no idea what

u. s. ambassador to peru, and as they say in the u. s. is really no such thing as a former cia agent. the reality is that many people around the world know that the u. s. embassy is used to organize coups and it's used for intelligence and spying operations. and in latin america, there is a joke that you often hear people say, they say, why is that as there never been a cou in washington? and that the answer is because there's no u. s embassy in washington. 3 explosions have wrought the city of don yeske overnight. sakes grad missiles were fired at a residential area according to local authorities. one of the buildings.

u. s. ambassador to peru, and as they say in the u. s. is really no such thing as a former cia agent. the reality is that many people around the world know that the u. s. embassy is used to organize coups and it's used for intelligence and spying operations. and in latin america, there is a joke that you often hear people say they say, why is that as there never been a coup in washington? and that the answer is because there's no u. s embassy in washington. 3 explosions have brought the city of daniel over night. 6 grad missiles were fired at a residential area. according to local authorities. one of the buildings reportedly caught fire with windows blown out and an entire floor destroyed in another whiteness as say, some missile fragments hid a car, injuring a family and side. we heard from local residents about their life under constant shelling lane, cities, units of blood, the option, the ukrainian regime ignores all the rules and targets purely civilian areas. there are no military personnel, they're only local residence, small children leave here. i have no idea what they're doin

u. s saying one thing and apparently doing another thing here racial what sort of ramifications could this development bring for the scale of international involvement in ukraine? right, well, it's one thing for raytheon, c, e o to be bragging about that involvement. but at the same time, we also have to remember that russia is foreign ministry has repeatedly warned about commercial satellites becoming what they refer to as legitimate target. if it is found that they are involved in the conflict, here's what was said. and not warning quasi civilian infrastructure, maybe a legitimate target for a retaliatory strike. we're talking about involvement of components of civilian and commercial infrastructure in space by the us and its allies in arms, conflicts, western actions, create unnecessary risks for the sustainability of peaceful activity in space. now russia has also said that if it is found that those commercial satellites are involved in even ukraine in the conflicts that, that would violate the outer space treaty, which dates back to the $960.00. so the conversation is likely just begi

u. s. government essentially striking deals with russia while it's waging a war and ukraine. well, this is us, you. we also mentioned this is, this is a good thing for the biden administration because they are showing a u. s. american citizen is coming back in december a couple of weeks before christmas. this is probably going to be a positive thing for them. a russian and ukranian war is still quite far away from the united states for isla, so people are not really noticing at the sanction, see, or the sanctions are being noticed in russia, in europe, but not really here. and this is, this is also what the senior agent from the safety department said this morning. this is not really going to change the negotiation and the position that the united states has towards the war. he pointed out that this has been a difficult negotiation. yes. but very focused on this exchange of prisoners, and that it is completely separated from the war that is happening right now in ukraine and the brutal way that it's being unfolding. w's, carolina, troy in washington, and dw yuri raton. riga, thanks so much to both. now iran has executed the 1st of the protest is

u. s. is supposed to provide compensation within 90 days of such incidents, but for many that has not been forthcoming. former president senior security policy . i was michael, move things the u. s. the past, the 1st of all, we'll never know. the real numbers of civilians killed off the top of my head. i would say that it's far greater than anything the defense department ever admitted to when you're dropping bombs from aircraft at 20000 feet on to a heavily populated area. the inevitable is gonna happen. you're going to kill a lot of people and they're not all terrorist and fighters. yeah. particularly in the, in cities even in the areas that are in, in, in syria where isis concentrated the heavy concentration of bombing that, that occurred. ready the, the inevitable result was a lots of deaths that went and reported. there is no way that we could get in the defense department to get to get in to verify. so they just didn't bother. of course you had these other groups outside groups that were reporting the killings and death. but the defense department's argument is, well, we can't verify it, so that's fine. what's going to be the consequence, even if you do reports, w

u. s. department of commerce. this is making things very, very difficult for them not as a result. the u. s. has to drum up these china threat in the mind of the nato, trying to justify why all these measures are necessary and to, to make, and at the same time trying to undermine the relationship between europe and china . so the u. s. a. u even giving more pressures to the european allies by dropping up all these kind of russia, china threats and through natal the u. s. has admitted to committing cyber attacks on foreign powers in the mid 7 actions is justified the move and by saying this is kind of in to fit in the vote. unless the us had stepped in we did conduct operations persistently to make sure that our foreign adversaries couldn't utilize infrastructure to impact us. we understood how foreign adversaries utilize infrastructure throughout the world. we had that mapped pretty well, and we wanted to make sure that we took it down at key times. this is the idea of understanding your foreign adversaries and operating outside the united states. washington a has been a, he is in r

and so it's been more transactional, had coal infrastructure investments and things that are concrete. and while we want the u. s, we people bike, the focus on, on human rights and those kinds of things. that's important. but we also want vol, concrete investments to backup that rhetoric while in terms of concrete things, the u. s. has also said it will support africa joining the g 20 and, and also for a permanency that the un security council, by my understanding would take a lot more agreement and a lot more political capital for that to actually happen. does africa view that as a realistic gesture or more lip service? i think that's a good gesture. that's an important gesture. it's it's, it's a good gesture, but it's still that's being on the g 20. that's all fine. right? and, but it's, we still people still one to see. got the us actually think believes that in africa, economic transformation is in its interest. right. i do believe that american authorities see that i just think that doing themselves that the service by catherine to relationship small as if they're competing with for influence with china. ri

u. s. department of commerce. this is making things very, very difficult for them not as a result. the u. s. has to drum up these china threat in the minds of the nato, the trying to justify why all these measures are necessary and to, to make, and at the same time trying to undermine the relationship between europe and china . so the u. s. a, you even giving more pressures to the european allies by dropping up all these kind of russia. china threat through natal see us says trying as corona via the death toll is a global concern because of its potential impacts on economic stability. washington is the 1st hopes that try and get it clue situation under control. this flight is early criticism of beijing locked down policies. the whole of the iris is of concern to the well given the size of china's pdp given the size of china's economy. it's not only good for china to be in a stronger position visa because it, but it's good for the rest of the worlds as well. we, the united states continue to be a leading force for countries around the world, and the provision of vaccines and helping

u. s. a european suit. thing more in tipster independence from united states and nato and try we've equation of the readings between european leaders will think we should ever more security we russia included, or should promote of id nato as an instrumental united states to try to cut links between russia and western europe and to maintain its supremacy in europe. so france, according to were gorgeous doctoring to promote its own approach. ern would like to promote to europe and security interest. russia included the problem is how to conveys a poland back states, sir german to do it. and i think we've in nato is going to be very if you could, you should be outside natal because note, nate who is not, cannot be reformed as long as we don't stop in nashville on nato on it. and following this decision to negotiate a new european security arrangement, russia included us or virginia are the goal, anticipate each on a busy. so for a quote, european of nations is going to be very difficult. ah, a good investment. that'

everything change small things to the u. s. government's concerns about not enough semiconductors being produced in america and well things to south korean electronics cooperation, sams taylor's mayor brand waddell met with us for coffee and into a lot of excitement and energy and enthusiasm about samsung. selecting taylor for this very, very important project. the same time, there are some trepidation because it's that fear of the unknown we've, we've never seen anything like this. certainly taylor and how much for many communities in the world have a, it's a night this occurred to them. so it's, it is an exciting time that very important project the mayor is talking about is this. samsung's $17000000000.00 investment on the outskirts of tamar. it's just a mega construction side now, but all this is going to be a gigantic state of the art semiconductor plant. to go online in 2024. i don't think we any, a secret sauce or magic formula here. they needed lots of available land, and they, they have over 1200 acres a required here

u. s. seeks to maintain influence on the continent on speakerphone, caribou, cutler reports established in 2014. the u. s. africa's leader summit is only the thing for the 2nd time this year. starting on december 13. you have proven joe biden is trying to africa and not just for his minerals, but also it's both, some $49.00 african hands of things are expected to be there, including the chairperson of the african union, morsa funky. now i know exactly what you're thinking. why, of 49 guys going to see one guy? well, this year, the un general assembly in march, 17 african heads of states, 17 african countries refuse to tow the line of the western nations and their allies to condemn russia over the ukraine conflict. this has heaped pressure and even threads on african countries emanating from the u. s. l is european allies. that trend continues. we think it's really important when we look at this on provoked aggression. this attack against democracy. russia's war against ukraine prudence were in ukraine. it's important to say this is wrong. what's most important is that as russia tries to, the distinctions that we have put on that countries in afr

u. s. power in the middle east, and i think one of the interesting things, and i think you can begin to connect some of the dots here. some of the stuff that the u. s. has done over the last 15 years. it's beginning to backfire now, particularly regarding using its power to bully other countries. and of course, you know, we've seen this in the russia, ukraine conflict, the, the, the way that the u. s. confiscated russia as far as the attempt by the western powers to under cut russian rockies economy. most recently by this oil cap machination saudi arabia reads all these things as well. and it seems that these same tools can be applied against it in india, that modi is seeing the same. i in latin america, i suspect all the latin american leaders are seeing the same. everyone begins to connect the dots, except the folks in the us who are imperial masika, you're absolutely right. it's back to just let me go to you. i mean, but it's more pernicious than that because if you don't want to play our game, we're going to punish you. we will even punish so called allies. ok. this is very interesti

u. s. department of commerce. this is making things very, very difficult for them not as a result, the u. s. has to drum up these, trying a threat in the mind of the nato trying to justify why all these measures this. okay, as we mentioned earlier, it's not in proportion is preparing to hold the meeting with the ministry of defense. we've just seen the russian leader enter the stage on. it's just about to speak less listening or meeting of the new ministry, the fans, if they're in a special period we are going on with a special military operation and considering the experience combat experiences that we have accumulated, we are going to discuss the key areas of the army and development, 1st of all, i would like the national sales and my warmest regards to soldiers and the officers who are now at the front lines or the training standards on all of them. they are fulfilling 30. so it's your duty in a dignified manner. they are risking their lives in other particular way and if they have to, they shield to a new 30 colmerton. are you sure

democrat and the senate minority leader, a republican, and both of them saying exactly the same thing. the u. s will continue to support ukraine despite the transition of power within congress itself because the republicans are taking over control of the house. come january. the 3rd and there are some elements within the republican party who are opposed to continued aid to ukraine. so that's going to be an issue perhaps in the voting for the house, the speaker, when that comes in the coming weeks. because although that right wing of the republican party is very much a minority, they have power far in excess of their size because of the republican slim majority . so the issue of a to ukraine may become an issue in issues like the a race for the ad speaker, for example. but generally congress here will welcome the president, warmly, many or going to be wearing the colors of the ukrainian flag in his honor. and mike, president, zalinski is going to be addressing the u. s. congress in the coming our. what do we expect him to say? what we came to expect him to ask for continued us support as to ukra

u. s. were energies much cheaper. one last thing, the genius of our ecologists and our elliots. you noticed that with the conflict in ukraine, we gave up on russian gas and rushed towards american guess the famous ellen. gee, you noticed that even the coldest stop criticizing this type of guess? what do you know where it comes from? just as for rush and guess it's putin who stop deliveries, toe. it's europe, nothing. no, it's us who boycotted the russian guest supplies. we said we don't want it anymore and he said, we will not supply to you anymore. then it's been far too long since european commission president ursula vander line promised europeans, some relief, even as energy bells continue to pile up. so what's brussels brilliant idea to fix its mass to cap the price of gas? now, it seems that they're desperate to fix the situation of their own making as kremlin spokesman. dmitri pascall explains, amid the absurd and frantic desire as the european say, to get rid of their dependence on russia. they do not say at the same time that they want to exchange one dependence for anot

u. s wants to prolong this thing, at least until 2025. don't forget dest contract that raphael, and fast with the american government, to supply them with state of the art, anti missile defense, and dest, when they're going to deliver, not november, 2025. so we've had 4 short pepe. i mean that big, that big 2 things. i mean, will ukraine still exist? that's up in the air? probably not. probably not likely, but i'm agreeing with you. and let me go to gerald, because i think it's really important here because what western media likes to frame this as a russia ukraine conflict. well, it's not that it's russia, the, it's a west, the western world, nato world against russia. and the rush is accepted. the challenge, and what i think is, is, is in the cards right here. all right, they want to use ukraine is a cudgel against russia. well, russia will use ukraine to destroy nato, and i think that is in the cards. that's one of the reasons why the russians are taking their time to watch nato exhausted. so, and watch the european union humiliate its

u. s. you're making things here in america and shipping the products overseas rather than shipping jobs overseasmake things overseas and bring them back home. apple ceo tim cook confirmed that apple would be buying chips from that plant in arizona. the first chips are scheduled to roll out of that plant in 2024 49ers are getting into the giving spirit of the holidays, ktvu south bay reported. lamonica peters takes us to an event called hope for the holidays at levi stadium. i'm ecstatic. i'm so happy i didn't took pictures from beginning to hear hundreds of cars lined up outside of levi stadium to take part in the hope for the holidays annual drive. i've through and give away hosted by the san francisco 49ers. second harvest of silicon valley also donated the food for the third year in a row. the holidays can be stressful for all of us, but especially when you have kids, and it's hard to provide. you can see just how much joy there is from people getting 70 special items and just getting to see the players. 49ers players filled each car with food team paraphernalia. and items from zinni glasses,

u. s. national interest. us national security interest. it should be in their interest to try to settle this thing once and for all, at least in the, in the, in the minds of the europeans. because they're the ones most directly affected by all of this. the u. s. a at right now cannot sustain its logistical support to ukraine indefinitely. besides that, it's back billing when europe is sending out and it in the us is actually provided most of the most of the money approach in a $100000000000.00, by the way. and yet the lisky still isn't satisfied and i think that's irking a lot of people. and as we were, as we were now hearing from republicans, that this is something that they will be looking at very, very carefully. they're going to be ending the so called blank check. and i think that that is a message that europe is going to have to take very, very seriously, and try to reverse its, its, its own belligerent tone and face reality. they're not facing reality. and i think that they need to understand that this cannot go on indefinitely. and former pentagon senior security policy analysts, michael maloof, always a pleasure having you on the

u. s. boot was all righty. being welcomed by his family in moscow, he had been in the u. s. jail since 2012. solving a 25 year sentence for arms trafficking thing. and i'm you talk ok. it greiner was arrested at moscow airport in february and sentence to 9 years for the possession of cannabis by a russian court. these immigrants published by the russian government shall have been released from the penal colony. she was held in and put on a plane to abu dhabi once inside. she was asked about her well being a riddle. and with that long ordeal is finally oval. i'm brittany griner is free, but the ordeal continues for another american unlawfully held in russia former marine paul whelan. he's been held for 4 years on espionage charges and i can now speak to his brother david whalen. welcome to the day mister whelan. you were hoping that a deal would be made to free your brother as well. now that that has materialized. how are you and your family? well, we've been working on this for 4 years and we are back to work. we had all hopes. i had hopes that paul would be coming home if there was a deal and now that that has fallen apart for paul, we will ju

u b. s. had them all retainer and the 2nd thing was i had to go with a 2nd rate firm. unfortunately, i didn't think the u. s. was going to be my problem. i thought the swiss government or this was banks and even the us would be the problem. so that's really where the crux was and i came in in good faith to drive you the right thing and they kept yelling at me and there were hostile towards me at the very beginning. and i said, look, i can't give you names of clients until you give me a subpoena. so we're not going to give you immunity. i want to give you a subpoena. i said, well, you're not getting the names and we are going to fix the cost in deal headquarters . i'll never forget it. and what really made me wonder was, i said now i'm really in this net deep, but i still held my ground as you know, i'm gonna hold firm on this. and ironically, later, once the investigations and so started the senate and u. b. s. is called to testify, they give the same answer. we can't give you these names until we change the laws in switzerland and parliament in zurich, shane law and or